Brendan Newell
Mission Statement: Hello, my name is Brendan Newell, and I am your typical college student. I am still experiencing a lot of personal growth in my life, meaning that I am still not completely sure what I want to do with my life yet career wise; however, I have narrowed down my career choice to a route in finance. Two out of my three current career ideas still need to be eliminated before I really can decide what I want to do going forward out of college.
These three career choices are:
- A career that would start out in investment banking that would eventually progress into private equity
- A career in which I would progress trading, and either become a senior trader at a proprietary firm or start my own hedge fund
- A career in which I would receive my Phd in economics, specifically applied econometrics, and go into trading, consulting, or into some financial career
Education:
- DePaul University: Expected Graduation: June 2016
- Bachelor of Science in Honors Quantitative Economics with a concentration in Econometrics
- Bachelor of Science in Finance
- Minor in Accountancy with a concentration in Financial Reporting
- GPA: 4.0/4.0
- Dean's List Achieved all quarters of attendance
- Carmel Catholic High School Graduated June 2012
Work Experience:
- DePaul University, Chicago IL October 2014-Present
- Aid Dr. Biner of DePaul University in the gathering of financial data from many. sources including Bloomberg and WRDS.
- Conduct statistical analysis on data using the programming language Stata in order to build financial models representing intraday price moves for daily highs and lows of large volume equities.
- Devise trading strategies that fit financial models and use out of sample forecasting to test trading strategies to test their reliability.
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Research Assistant
- HPM Partners, Chicago IL June 2014-October 2014 Intern
- Aid in the completion of client requests, including gathering and researching data, ensuring follow-up and, as delegated, preparing materials and financial analysis for client meetings.
- Compile performance reports, including agenda, exhibit, and investment reports for presentations.
- Assisted in the data mining aspect of various research projects for the firm, including weekly indices reports, and quarterly market digest reports.
- Performed Administrative tasks such as phone coverage, correspondence, database maintenance, filing, scanning, binding, financial reporting, and other types of office management.
- Complete assigned research or special ad-hoc projects.
- Mundelein Park & Recreation District: September 2011 - June 2012 Gym Attendant
- Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse : June 2010 - September 2010 Receiving
- Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse: June 2009 - September 2009 Receiving
Skills:
Stata, SAS, HTML, CSS, Bloomberg, FactSet, Morningstar, Microsoft Office: Excel, Powerpoint, Word
If you wish to contact me, my contact information is provided below:
- Phone: (847) 915-9036
- Email:
[email protected]
- Address: 180 East Pearson Street, Apartment #4101 Chicago IL, 60611